The Impact Of Men's Movement On Society

Introduction

Many people around the world feel pressured and stressed because of their societies’ gender expectation, as social conditioning confines their experiences, abilities as well as freedom of expression. To overcome society’s norms and conditioning, many people resort to groups that they most identify with and these groups are usually referred to as social movements.

The reason people formed social movements and join one, is because it is hard to escape their society’s norms alone. Society enforces people to behave in a certain way according to one’s gender as it is found in every aspect of a person’s domains, such as, socially, culturally, politically and economically, in other words in all surroundings. Thus, people seek these groups

But, what about men, do they not have their own rights in the society and the expectations that they face in the society? People should know that not only woman face inequalities and mistreatments by their societies, but also men do face them according to several men’s movements. Therefore, many people are not aware that there are also men’s movement in several countries, such as in India, United States and Australia. The overall aim of the study is to identify the impacts of men’s movement on society, especially changes in Australia. Fathers’ rights or men’s rights groups in Australia were successful in obtaining the right of shared parenting, even at the cost of children safety. This study or research include the following: introduction, divisions of men’s movement, fathers’ rights movement, the impact of fathers’ rights movement in Australia and

Thus, the problems that a man or a woman faces in society should not be blamed on the opposite gender, as these gender norms were created long before. Moreover, both men and women can cooperate and help each other in creating a society free from violence and inequality, which can be done through utilizing the control and the authority both men and women have in society, rather than misusing or abusing their power to gain what each